SHERLOCK HOLMES NOVELS

At the very beginning of this dramatic final Sherlock Holmes novel the renowned detective receives a coded message from a secret contact in the underworld – the underworld of Sherlock’s arch-enemy Professor Moriarty – warning of imminent danger to a prominent citizen, and just when Sherlock had succeeded in decoding the message a Scotland Yard Inspector calls on him to announce that the citizen in question had just been murdered.
That leads Sherlock, Doctor Watson and Inspector MacDonald (…)

Very simply : the most famous – and probably the greatest – novel in the history of crime fiction, a dramatic murder mystery in the eerie, desolate and dangerous Dartmoor Downs in Devon where Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion and formidable narrator Doctor Watson investigate at great risks to themselves the menace of a mysterious wild beast that threatens to put an end to one of the most ancient dynasties of the region [1].
(59,000 words)
An e-book is available for downloading (…)

At the beginning of this second Sherlock Holmes novel [1] the eponymous detective is resorting to opium to allay his boredom when a young woman arrives to ask him – and Doctor Watson – to accompany her to a rendezvous that promises to reveal the mysterious fate of her father ten years previously. Off they go to begin to unravel, thanks to the quite extraordinary reasoning powers of the by-now-everyone’s-favorite detective, not only the fate of the poor lady’s husband but also of the fabulous (…)

The very first Sherlock Holmes story and the author’s first novel [1], where Sherlock and Doctor Watson meet for the first time in “London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained”, get along famously from the start after Holmes asks Doctor Watson “What have you to confess now ? It’s just as well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they begin to live together.”, move into shared lodgings in the thereafter-famous (…)